The Queen Mother Memorial Gates
Prince Charles as The Duke of Rothesay*, accompanied by The Duchess of Rothesay, unveiled the Queen Mother Memorial Gates at Glamis Castle yesterday. 
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007
A Castle Fit For A King
DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR when British children were being evacuated to Canada (and the United States) in the scores and thousands, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, famously said that her children would not go because "they would never leave without me, I would never leave without their father, and he would never leave." The popular decision to stay and endure the London Blitz allowed the Royal Family to look EastEnders in the eye, but it meant that the new stately home purchased outright for them in 1940 by His Majesty's Dominion Government, was never to be. Hatley Castle, the picturesque medieval tudor built between 1906 and 1911 by Sir James Dunsmuir in the outskirts of Victoria, British Columbia, almost became an official royal residence. (click to enlarge top photo)
From Royal Residence to Royal Roads
Yours truly remembers it as the tri-service Royal Roads Military College, which was my two-year feeder prior to attending RMC. But the spirit of Royal Roads was that of the old Royal Naval College of Canada, which trained hundreds of reserve and regular naval officers throughout the 1940s for the fast expanding Royal Canadian Navy. Sadly, the military college closed its doors in 1995, when it became Royal Roads University.
It's difficult to describe the beauty of the waterfront castle with its manicured gardens and fields. The photos, as stunning as they are, still don't do it justice. Missing is the forest smell, the garden breeze and the sheer royal majesty of the place. All I'll say is that it was like a piece of England. A piece of England fit for royalty.
Beaverbrook
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